This month, we carry you a publication jam-packed (June-packed? …sorry) with growth updates, details about Summer time Camp, and even a very enjoyable alternative to create a sitcom episode idea on World Anvil!
The devs have given us so many new toys this month! Examine them out!
📝 Main article edit improve
With the brand new article mannequin you possibly can add prompts a la carte, model your articles, and extra! Right here’s what the brand new toolbar on the article modal seems to be like:
From this toolbar, you possibly can…
- Use article template prompts & customized content material sections (click on the “+ Immediate” button)
- Change article settings & styling (click on the gear and artwork palette buttons)
- Entry article feedback and different social options (click on the speech bubble button)
This final one can also be a brand-new function for articles basically! You now not have to modify to viewing the article if you wish to test the article’s feedback. How cool is that? See the discharge weblog for extra particulars!
🎲 New RPG techniques!
Due to Tillerz, a tremendous Anvilite, we now have character sheet and statblock help for 2 new techniques!
- Daggerheart: Make daring selections, create unforgettable characters, and inform tales that final lengthy after the cube and playing cards are put away with the brand new recreation by Darrington Press. Examine an instance character.
- Star Trek Adventures 2nd Version: Discover the confines of the universe and boldly go the place nobody has gone earlier than with this recreation! Examine an instance character.
- Closing Fantasy XIV TTRPG: Step into the sneakers of a heroic adventurer, forge your personal distinctive tales, and discover the world of Eorzea. Examine an instance character.
⚙️ Article editor migration
A while in the past we launched the flexibility to modify textual content editors (Visible Editor and Superior Editor) article by article. However this got here with a giant pink warning: changing from the Superior Editor to the Visible Editor was dangerous.
Properly, no extra! Now, whenever you swap editors, you may be warned if the article has any BBCode tags that the Visible Editor doesn’t help. Simply go to article settings to modify editors and see this function in motion. Study extra right here!
💻 Variables UI replace
Variables have been up to date to the brand new interface! The brand new design is quicker and simpler to make use of whereas conserving the identical performance. Create and replica variables from anyplace on the location with out opening a brand new web page! Variables are a complicated technical function; learn the Information to Variables for extra info!
👀 Different quality-of-life updates
We additionally launched different minor quality-of-life updates, together with…
- Press Alt+N (or Ctrl+N on a Mac) to create a brand new article proper from the keyboard!
- When trying to find an article, its template will now seem subsequent to its title so you could have extra context on the outcomes!
- Secrets and techniques now show the articles they belong to inside the edit modal. Examine the Information to Secrets and techniques.
- Now you can hyperlink Chronicles from an article utilizing the Visible Editor. Examine the Information to Chronicles.
- Some icons within the left sidebar have been refined for higher readability and accessibility.
Take a look at the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the total changelog.
🗓️ June occasions
The Summer time (Camp) season is right here! Summer time Camp is one in all our yearly worldbuilding occasions; throughout July, we problem you to reply between 8 and 32 prompts in your world—learn extra right here. Listed here are this month’s occasions!
- 🍨 Summer time Camp Prep problem: each week this month, we’ll launch a brand new task to organize for Summer time Camp… in addition to reveal every of the 4 Summer time Camp themes! Examine the problem web page and submit your homework to get the homework badge!
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: this month’s World Anvil Neighborhood Day will likely be on June twenty first! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 Sage Seminar: Introduction to website positioning (and World Anvil) (5pm UK/9am Pacific): This month’s Sage Seminar, Kat, our superb content material & advertising and marketing knowledgeable, will be part of us to inform us all about website positioning and apply it to World Anvil! Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
- ☕ Internal Sanctum Espresso: for those who’re a member of the Internal Sanctum, be part of the bi-monthly Espresso, at 10am UK/2am Pacific and 4pm UK/8am Pacific! The hyperlink will likely be shared on the Discord channel on the day.
- 🙌 Neighborhood Stream (6pm UK/10am Pacific): This would be the final theme reveal earlier than Summer time Camp launches… and your final likelihood to submit your homework!
Comply with us on Twitch to be taught after we go reside!
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
Ever needed to write down your personal sitcom episode? Properly… now you possibly can, because of this month’s neighborhood spotlight by eccbooks! It’s a very inventive use of random tables, put collectively in an article so you possibly can create the premise of your personal episode for the Bards sitcom. Right here’s what Chris, the writer, needed to say about it!
Bards is an ideal instance of two issues I strive to bear in mind with my worldbuilding today. The primary is to concentrate on entertaining myself first and worrying concerning the exterior world later. The second is to construct issues throughout WorldEmber and Summer time Camp that will likely be helpful to me in no matter writing mission I’m at present engaged on.
With Bards, I got down to create my first actually interactive article and used my exhaustive information of the actual world TV present Associates as inspiration. I needed some type of leisure that people from throughout my world could be conversant in, and so I got here up with the concept of a touring improvisational present—one thing the WA reader might take part in themselves with roll tables and whatnot.
When it received the Plot Particular Class award for WorldEmber 2023, I used to be giddy with delight that even one particular person had thought it enjoyable. When it received a World Anvil Worldbuilding Award this yr, I used to be shocked. And to see people play with it reside on the award stream was one of the crucial rewarding experiences of my inventive profession to this point.
The neighborhood voted this as one of the best plot within the 2025 Worldbuilding Awards! Take a look at the Bards now!
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